John Walker's "Sufferings of the Clergy" and Church of England responses to the ejections of 1660-2 / Mark Burden. The debate over authority : adiaphora, the civil magistrate, and the settlement of religion / Jacqueline Rose -- Circumstantial temporary concessions : Clarendon, comprehension, and uniformity / Paul Seaward -- The silencing of God's dear ministers : John Bunyan and his church in 1662 / Michael Davies -- The bishops of Ireland and the beasts at Ephesus : reconstruction, conformity, and the presbyterian knot, 1660-2 / Robert Armstrong -- Presbyterian politics and the restoration of Scottish episcopacy, 1660-2 / Alasdair Raffe -- Going Dutch : beyond black Bartholomew's day / Cory Cotter -- Crisis and opportunity : the Restoration church settlement and New England / Owen Stanwood -- The nonformist narrative of the Bartholomeans / N.H. Keeble -- John Walker's "Sufferings of the Clergy" and Church of England responses to the ejections of 1660-2 / Mark Burden.
Summary:
The 1662 Act of Uniformity and the consequent "ejections" on August 24 (St. Bartholomew's Day) of those who refused to comply with its stringent conditions comprise perhaps the single most significant episode in post-Reformation English religious history. Intended, in its own words, "to settle the peace of the church" by banishing dissent and outlawing Puritan opinion it instead led to penal religious legislation and persecution, vituperative controversy, and repeated attempts to diversify the religious life of the nation until, with the Toleration Act of 1689, its aspiration was finally abandoned and the freedom of the individual conscience and the right to dissent were, within limits, legally recognised. Bartholomew Day was hence, unintentionally but momentously, the first step towards today's pluralist and multicultural society. his volume brings together nine original essays which on the basis of new research examine afresh the nature and occasion of the Act, its repercussions and consequences and the competing ways in which its effects were shaped in public memory. A substantial introduction sets out the historical context. The result is an interdisciplinary volume which avoids partisanship to engage with episcopalian, nonconformist, and separatist perspectives; it understands "English" history as part of "British" history, taking in the Scottish and Irish experience; it recognises the importance of European and transatlantic relations by including the Netherlands and New England in its scope; and it engages with literary history in its discussions of the memorialisation of these events in autobiography, memoirs, and historiography. This collection constitutes the most wide-ranging and sustained discussion of this episode for fifty years.
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